Airspan Networks and Athonet are demonstrating their use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and edge computing technology through live demos at the AWS Experience booth at Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona.

AWS will demonstrate a 5G Stand Alone Private Network using 100 MHz of n77 spectrum, leveraging the Airspan 5G Network In a Box/5G Starter Kit solution and the Athonet 5G mobile core. The Airspan 5G Starter Kit and Athonet solutions can run on both AWS Cloud and AWS Snowball Edge.

The demo’s 5G network solution includes two Airspan indoor OpenRANGE Air Velocity 2700 radios, an Air 5G Distributed Unit (DU) and Centralized Unit (CU), along with the Airspan Control Platform (ACP), a single platform to manage Airspan’s products including 5G, 5G CBRS and Open RAN.

The demo highlights how ISVs who offer 5G RAN and 5G Core functions can leverage the scalability of AWS and AWS cloud automation tools to quickly set up a private 5G network on AWS.

The AWS showcase will demonstrate AWS’ ability to simplify private networks by offering simplicity of deployment and management, as well as how to automate critical smart factory applications and use cases, over a live network featuring Airspan’s 5G Starter Kit. The booth will feature a mini-smart factory floor – set to 1/50th scale, and a robotic dog.

“Combining the AWS Cloud and AWS edge compute technology with Airspan’s leadership in 5G private network deployments and the Athonet core is creating innovative 5G Private Network solutions and use cases for customers and partners,” said Airspan Chairman and CEO Eric Stonestrom.

“With the Athonet 5G architecture running on AWS we can bring up multi-vendor networks on-demand using the agility and simplicity of the AWS Cloud and Airspan’s innovative Open RAN radio solutions,” said Gianluca Verin, chief executive officer, Athonet.